Machine Upgrade This Week! (Advice welcomed...)

[Gurm]

Ok here's a link to 411s@811s.

http://www.elysiumsx.net/Patcher811.rar

But I'm not sure if it's Zebra's, and cannot vouch for its safety. I think this just patches official firmwares.

- Gurm

[bsdgeek]

Hate to be a naysayer here, since free speed is always good. But... considering the fact that you may totally FUBAR a $100+ drive, the extra $20 (on Newegg) would seem worth it to me.

[Marshmallowman]

Thanks for that, I will be sticking to 411s for a while as I can only really get 4x media, but later on when 8x media becomes more common I will try flashing it. I did read on the forum it may actually improve compatibilty with 4x media as well,...so I may try it sooner

[Gurm]

The 8x drives write at 4-8x variable on good quality 4x media.

- Gurm

[Admiral]

Originally posted by Gurm
Yes, what I'm saying is that all the manufacturers who are tacking SATA onto the board ... it's not SiS's SATA. I dunno whose it is, but it's not a standard part of the 748 chipset. I'd rather pick my SATA than get whatever crap-ass addon is included. Last time someone "added on" something to my motherboard, it was a HIGHPOINT RAID. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

If it's got a SIS 964 southbridge shouldn't it have native SIS SATA ?
(something the Asrock K7S8XE+ has)

[Gurm]

Is the ASROCK's native? *shrug*

I did not know that.

Well, I like this FIC, I just wish I knew how to change the multiplier...

- Gurm

[Byock]

Are you going to try overclocking it? All 2500+ I have seen hit 3200+ Speeds rock stable, with the default voltage.

[cbman]

I'll vouch for that... after exchanging a flakey motherboard for the same model from work... 3200+ stock voltage and cooler... too bad with more than two memory modules the new bios automatically limits the memory to 333 to prevent stability problems with cheap memory.

[Marshmallowman]

Apperently if you muck around with the bridges on a barton/tbred you can set one brdge to indentify the cpu as mobile part,

Then you can use a program to change to whatever multiplier you want in windows

handy for locked chips and boards with no multiplier adjustment.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

WOW, I feel outdated.

So LiteOn 411 allows you to do:

411 -> 811 -> Possible Dual Layer using firmware flashes? Amazing

But is it stable?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/8861

Looks like the -R party is working on Dual Layer. Apparently you only need a 4X -R drive to burn Dual Layer -R, demonstrated by Pioneer! (with just a firmware upgrade)

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fav%2Fdocs%2F20040109%2Fces06.htm&lp=ja_en&tt=url

even more interesting things...

BD-R... 25GB single layer, 50GB double layer. Man, are these guys sh*tting us?

[Kris1]

I'm using a 401@411@811 modded writer for some weeks now. Works amazing. Sold my Plex 708 and bought 2 401's for the money, and presented my dad and my bro-in-law with a working, stable 8x DVD+ capable writer as present.

[Gurm]

Kris - you're using Zebra's mod, yeah?

- Gurm

[Kris1]

Indeed.

Only drawback compared to the Plextor 708 so far is the Plex had a higher succesrate writing 8x on cheaper 4+ media, the Liteon works with 8x media (of course) and stuff like Ricoh/Traxdata 4x DVD at 8x. Haven't done too much other tests, as I'm quite pleased with the results now.

[DentyCracker]

Trying to get used to my system running 4-6 degrees hotter than normal, haven't burned anything since coming back home so will wait a bit before trying that mod. (Until I have settled in and have the machine certified stably.